Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America - Softcover

Desmond, Matthew; Emirbayer Associate Professor, Mustafa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072970510 ISBN 13: 9780072970517

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Synopsis

Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America looks at race in a clear and accessible way, allowing students to understand how racial domination and progress work in all aspects of society. Examining how race is not a matter of separate entities but of systems of social relations, this text unpacks how race works in the political, economic, residential, legal, educational, aesthetic, associational, and intimate fields of social life. Racial Domination, Racial Progress is a work of uncompromising intersectionality, which refuses to artificially separate race and ethnicity from class and gender, while, at the same time, never losing sight of race as its primary focus. The authors seek to connect with their readers in a way that combines disciplined reasoning with a sense of engagement and passion, conveying sophisticated ideas in a clear and compelling fashion.

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew Desmond is an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Evicted (forthcoming from Crown publishing), On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters (2007), and The Racial Order (co-authored with Mustafa Emirbayer, 2015).

Mustafa Emirbayer is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. A past chair of the ASA Theory Section and winner of the Lewis Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting in Sociology, Emirbayer s research includes historical studies on the teaching of morality and citizenship in American public schools and theoretical studies on race, social networks, culture, agency, collective emotions, the public sphere and civil society, revolutions and social movements, organizations, and democracy. He is the co-author (with Matthew Desmond) of The Racial Order (2015).

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0072970510
• ISBN 13: 9780072970517
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 688